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2022 Graduate Research Grant Recipients

Phi Kappa Phi is proud to present the 2022 Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Research Grant recipients. Each graduate student received a grant of up to $1,500. The program grant recipients are:

Petra Banks, Texas State University

Banks, a doctoral teaching assistant and graduate research assistant at Texas State University will use funds from the award to conduct experimental trauma research at the Forensic Anthropology Center at TXST.

Shermel Edwards-Maddox, Texas Woman's University

Edwards-Maddox, a graduate student at Texas Woman's University, will use funds from the award to support her dissertation examining impostor phenomenon and burnout in newly licensed registered nurses.

Chkwuyem Ekhator, Northern Illinois University

Ekhator, a medical student at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, will use funds from the award to present at the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Mic Fenech, The University of Texas at Austin

Fenech, a graduate research assistant at The University of Texas at Austin, will use funds from the award to conduct research.

Gavin Gleasman, Clemson University

Gleasman, a Ph.D. Candidate at Clemson University will use funds to investigate carbon sequestration and storage in tidal wetland environments.

Emma Harlet, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Harlet, a teaching assistant at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, will use funds from the award to travel for archive research.

Sarah Weber Hertel, George Mason University

Hertel, a doctoral candidate at George Mason University, will use funds from the award to support her field work in Wales where she will be researching the human dimensions of rewilding.

Sophia Mavroudas, Texas State University

Mavroudas, a Ph.D. candidate at Texas State University, will use funds from the award to support her research in Mexico which examines human bone microstructure for identification of unknown individuals in applied contexts.

Nina Naghshineh, Fordham University

Naghshineh, a graduate student at Fordham University, will use funds from the award to support research regarding how the eastern redback salamander immune system functions at a genetic level.

Emily N. Napier, East Tennessee State University

Napier, a graduate assistant at East Tennessee State University, will use funds from the award to present research at the National Communication Association conference.

Iqra Pervaiz, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Pervaiz, a Ph.D. candidate at Texas Tech University of Health Sciences, will use funds from the award to develop an RNA-seq assay to better understand the underlying mechanisms of glucose energy crisis in GLUT-1 deficiency syndrome.

Kieron Dwayne Sargeant, Florida State University

Sargeant, a visiting assistant professor at University of Iowa, will use funds from the award to complete a Master of Arts in community dance research project "Bridging Black and Brown Bodies through African Diasporic" at Ohio University.

Alexander Schmid, Louisiana State University

Schmid, a doctoral student and graduate assistant at Louisiana State University, will use funds from the award to present at the Dante Society of America in Sarasota, Florida, and Association for Private Enterprise Education in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Emily R. Schumacher, The University of Tulsa

Schumacher, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at The University of Tulsa, will use funds from the award to support her dissertation fieldwork in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, where she will conduct archaeological excavation at Fort Louise Augusta to answer questions about the daily lives of the site's occupants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Sarah N. Sexton, The University of Tampa

Sexton, a graduate student at Southeastern Louisiana University, will use funds from the award to support research in Panama where she will study the ecology of endangered hatchling sea turtles.

Eliza Stein, Louisiana State University

Stein, a graduate research assistant at Louisiana State University, will use funds from the award to investigate diets of migratory birds in their breeding and wintering grounds.

Rachel Stein, University of Idaho

Stein, a graduate student at the University of Idaho, will use funds from the award to support research studying risk perception and habitat selection by small mammals.                                                       

Patricia Stout, The University of Texas at Dallas

Stout, a Ph.D. candidate at The University of Texas at Dallas, will use funds from the award to support research in Chicago, Illinois, where she will study the development and impact of community-based art projects.

Rachel Tharp, Missouri State University

Tharp, a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, will use funds from the award to support the digitization, transcription, and presentation of an essential Chaucerian resource: John Manly and Edith Rickert's list of variants to the Canterbury Tales.

Gordon Blaine West, University of Wisconsin-Madison

West, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will use funds from the award to support dissertation research on transnational communications between groups of elementary-aged youth located at sites in China, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda and the United States.